AnimalFarm

===//**Animal Farm**// is a [|novel] by [|George Orwell]. Published in England on 17 August 1945, the book reflects events leading up to and during the [|Stalin era] before [|World War II]. Orwell, a [|democratic socialist],[|[][|1][|]] and a member of the [|Independent Labour Party] for many years, was a critic of [|Joseph Stalin], and was suspicious of [|Moscow]-directed [|Stalinism] after his experiences with the [|NKVD] during the [|Spanish Civil War]. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described //Animal Farm// as his novel 'contre Stalin'.[|[][|2][|]]=== ===The original title was //Animal Farm: A Fairy Story//. When published in the United States in 1946, the publishers dropped //A Fairy Story//. Only in Telugu, of all translations during Orwell's lifetime, was the original title retained. Other variations in the title include: //A Satire//, and //A Contemporary Satire//.[|[][|2][|]] Orwell suggested for the French translation the title 'Unions des republiques socialistes animales' or URSA, which means "bear" in Latin.[|[][|2][|]]=== ===The book was chosen by //[|Time]// Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to 2005),[|[][|3][|]] was number 31 on the [|Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels] and won a Retrospective Hugo in 1996.===

===The short novella is an [|allegory] in which animals play the roles of the [|Bolshevik] revolutionaries and overthrow and oust the human owners of the farm, setting it up as a commune in which, at first, all animals are equal; however, class and status disparities soon emerge between the different animal species. The [|novel] describes how a society's ideologies can be manipulated and twisted by those in positions of social and political power, including how a [|utopian]===